Hate site or the Truth they are trying to Suppress?

Kia Ora,

One of the Sunday papers(Sunday Star-Times) here in New Zealand screamed the headlines Hate website calls NZ 'a tourist death trap'.

Yes when you look at the website some of the claims seem pretty out there. But I have been around the military, security & now in doing financial research to know that the truth really is often much stranger than fiction.

In fact when you dig into the financial area it is no wonder the US is a land of conspiracy theories. Many of them are actually based on firm facts.

But what of this sites claims?

One is that New Zealand is the most dangerous country in the world after Iraq. Well I have always said that it is actually more dangerous than Iraq which has New Zealanders perplexed. But they have to put it in context.

New Zealand is a country bigger in land size than Britain but with a population the size of Singapore. So the incidents of crime are spread out. The real reason though that I & others including my dentist originally from Jo'burg see New Zealand so dangerous is that it is so random & there is no reason for the crime. A lot of the violent crime here is just for kicks. That is what makes it so dangerous.

But New Zealand toursim makes a good point. Because New Zealand looks so safe & inviting people do not take the precautions they would normally. That random nature of the crime is the thing that really gets them.
Press Control Around the World
This is not the first website I have been aware off atacking New Zealand.

Some would say my blog here does the same. I would beg to differ, I am just interested in us been the best we can be. We were once but now we aim low & fail to achieve that mark & are in for a big shock.

Many of those like me who have worked security in places like Iraq or Afghanistan can see that it is not if but when New Zealand will be hit by a modern style terrorist attack.

Again New Zealanders can not see it as very few have ever been involved in this type of event. As a former Police officer who worked with us in Iraq said "you guys were right. Could only see it when I came back & started to talk to my old police colleagues. They couldn't see it as they have never experienced it" or words to that effect.
The Google on Orwell.(//bites: BRIEF NOTES ON NEWS AND VIEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD): An article from: Arena Magazine
The end of the article though brought up another issue. Internal Affairs were talked to about why the site wasn't banned effectively if not in so many words.

This starts to smack of the movement in the US, identified by financial commentators, by US media to have Wikileaks blocked & prosecuted. You would think they would be supporting Wikileaks.

Travelling the world I have found two countries in particular heavily control their media & what is put out into the public.

Singapore & the US.

In Singapore all comment criticizing the country is banned.

US citizens that have never travelled though will find the comment about how controlled their media is strange considering they see themselves as the bastion of free speech.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Unfortunately that is a myth & like anyone you don't see your country in the same light until you have travelled overseas.

It is common when talking to Americans when they visit New Zealand for them to express surprise at the content of our news & items they would never see about the US, in the US.

In the same vein I was surprised when visiting the US as to how controlled & inaccurate the information was.

Recently it has appeared to not only myself but many others that New Zealand media are going the same way.

Even more recently a filter was put on the internet which from memory was supposed to limit certain spam & scams in particular to government sites. Well none of that seems to have slowed. In fact it has increased but it is noticeable that certain sites have become harder to access.
Animal Farm and 1984
So seeing the comment from main stream media about effectively banning the site is worrying.

The internet & social media have opened up the information world, after all we are in the information age, & so people are able to look & decide for themselves what is right & what isn't.

Western countries make a big deal when the likes of China or Iran do it, or right now Eygpt but it is increasingly looking like the West itself is allowing the same restrictions they condem to creep in.

Why?

What have they got to hide?

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Are we being led up the Garden path?

Kia Ora,

In recent days have been watching the Keiser Report. A half hour twice weekly financial report on the true state of the worlds financial crisis. It can be quite amusing & very informative.

A recent episode has raised an interesting question. Are US authorities in particular using false or unrecognized flag activities to introduce powers well beyond those required?

By that it is meant that they are using what seems to be a good reason to place more draconian measures in place?

The most contentious of these have been the questioning of the need for such stringent security precautions in particular at airports in the US. There have been several incidents or people refusing to comply with these precautions.

From a security point of view some of the precautions instituted do have an appearance more of control that anything to do with security.

The airport security issue though is a hard one. Yes people will be thinking well it has been a while so we need not be so over the top. But that is the issue with terrorism. You only need to let your guard slip once & it can be the last time.
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open : A Free Press for a New Century
So though the aid of the new generation scanner is intrusive, it is probably one that for now is needed as the lesser of two evils.

But another issue has arisen. Wikileaks has released cables showing that US politicians used trade with Boeing as a bargining chip to say meetings with the President. Corruption no more no less! Boeing has allgedly even said it wants to ditance itself from this type of corruption.

Then there is the one about putting pressure on the French Government to not proceed with the law banning Monsanto GM grains or similar. If the French introduce these measures they will spread to the whole of Europe.

For those that don't know the French were aware that GM grains had produced illnesses in lab rats.

GM anything is shown to stop reproducing after about three cycles therefore creating a currency where to feed their people countries would have to buy from the likes of Monsanto.
Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open : A Free Press for a New Century
Even worse was the story told to us in a visit to Canada years ago. The Canadians that told us were adamant this occurred.

A farm was set up using GM wheat, the farmer next door was a natural farmer. The natural farmer found the GM crop had cross pollinated with his wheat so complained. The company owning the GM crop sued him & won his farm.

What is emerging is none of these stories have been aired on mainstream US media & the alternative media is supporting the call for Wikileaks to be prosecuted. The US government appears to be using Wikileaks as an excuse to put restrictions on reporting & is using the unwittng support of US media to breach their own first admendment rights.

It has even been reported that US Politicians are putting in place legislation to stop the use of the words 'bank run'. A bank run is when people think a bank or banks are about to collapse & everyone wants to get their cash out.
The Constitution : That Delicate Balance ; National Security and the Freedom of the Press
At least one major bank in the US has already put in place the requirements for people to give 7 days notice to withdraw their cash at some future period.

This would likely led to riots. As it is, it is not the large banks who have caused the financial crisis who will suffer, just the small ones. It is the small banks who are already going under. 2008 it was 40, 2009 from memory 125 & last I heard in 2010 it was on target for about 140 plus with 2990 banks on the verge of going under.

The large banks just receive bailouts to pay for their bad debts & then pay themselves large rewards. Or those who assist them such as the reputed US$42 million Tony Blair has been paid by a US bank for representing their interests in Kuwait. Sure beats the US$600,000 he was getting for been Middle East envoy.

It will give those in authority an excuse to impliment even greater powers to deal with any unrest.
Freedom lies in being bold
So are we been led up the garden path? It sure seems that way. The problem is much of it can be justified & what can't be the people do not have access to the true situation.

As someone said to me here the other day "but the government knows best" another one recently "but the government will know of that threat"(in that case I doubt it but if they do they are doing nothing about it) & the last one was "If you can't trust the government to protect your information who can you trust?"

Now that one is in real fantasyland.

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So whats the big Secret?

Kia Ora,

There has been a bit made about the revealation from Wikileaks that New Zealand used the Waihopai 'spy' base to listen in on Fiji.

So have I missed something here?

What is the big secret?

I was always of the understanding the base was built in the main to provide secure communications for our people overseas with the side benefit of gaining information so we could say we were doing our part.

Sometimes that information could be useful like I would expect the intercepted communication where some of those arrested in the 'terrorist' raids in the North Island discussed an option if George Bush decided to hop across the ditch(Tasman Sea) to visit New Zealand.

That information was more likely to have come from the base than any police operation & would of been responsible for low blast walls appearing at the US base here in Christchurch on the tarmac where the planes parked up.

So why do I think it was more communications initially than anything else?

Well due to our anti Nuclear stance we weren't much part of anything else at least officially for one.

But the other reason was due to anecdotal evidence that came to light in the military towards the end of 1987.
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What came to light was that allegedly two New Zealand Military officers on attachment in Fiji due to our close relationship at the time suddenly realized that a coup was almost certainly going to happen.

They thought it was their duty to report it even if people would not likely believe them. The story then goes they were stopped from doing so, not by Fiji who had no idea, but by another NZ Government department.

It gets better. When they caught a flight out to a neighbouring island group they were stopped at airport because again this other government department told this other Island group they were coming to interfere with their local government. I believe the story went from memory.
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The information, so the story goes, was only passed to New Zealand as a NZ warship came into Suva harbour as part of a good will visit & these two were able to get on board as it docked.

Apparently just a few minutes in front of a platoon of Fijian soldiers.

Only thing was they got the message out as the coup was happening.

I didn't think much of the story until a few years ago when as part of a local community group we asked the local MP why the government was so inefficient since spending properly in one area could save a lot in another.

The answer! Oh they are little empires all the departments & they are very jealous of their budget & areas they have influence over. Trying to get them to work together is almost impossible. Or words to that effect.
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So petty internal politics was supposedly responsible for the country not getting some sort of warning of problems in a close neighbour!

Although the budget one I can understand as the way governments work is if a department doesn't spend all its cash in the financial year its budget is cut the following year to what it did use.

It has resulted in very inefficient departments who have forgot that they are a public service.
Electronic Spying
But has Wikileaks let a big secret out of the bag?

I don't think so. Just added to the revealations that governments hide things, are not up front & truthful with each other let alone their own people.

In fact it is something I noticed working in Iraq that most in the US military are no different than any other military once you got past the rah rah USA stuff.

Good honest people who wanted to make a difference. Then the disillusionment set in when they seen all the corruption going on in their name & they were providing the protection/loosing lives over it!
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Some even started to realize why the likes of the British & New Zealanders took the piss out of their politicians etc.

Wikileaks hasn't revealed many real secrets just the information that was already there if people were not following the unimportant things put there to divert our attention.

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New Security Regulations!

Kia Ora,

There has been no blog for last few days as have been completing a submission as requested on the training regulations for the new Private Security Personnel & Private Investigators Act 2010.

As I have pointed out on many occassions the New Zealand Security Industry only plays at security, so the submission was not complimentary to the current system or the likely system that will be implimented under the regulations.

But there were many suggestions on where they have to look to bring the industry up to international standards.

The points I have made though take on a more realistic view when the latest Wikileaks posting about New Zealand reveal how NZ Muslims have fought in wars such as Afghanistan,Bosnia & possibly Chechnya.

No Jihadists? Yeah Right!

They also reveal at least one Jihadist is promoting extremist views in a New Zealand mosque.

There will never be suicide bombers in New Zealand! Yeah Right!

That is someone they can watch but what about the ones they don't see as highlighted by what the former Kiwi Jihadist has pointed out in his youtube postings.

Yet the New Zealand Security Industry is not ready for what it views as a more aggressive form of security to combat or neutralize any threat.
Inside Terrorism
Even basic crime is not just about the police doing their job but the whole community & in that the NZ Security Industry has a big role to play if they are up to it. So what about extremism?

But as I say the Security Industry in New Zealand just plays at it!

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Terrorist threat!

Kia Ora,

First thanks to Simon for his kind words. Just try to base this on my experience & what I see & hear out on the ground.

This last week has raised the issue of terrorist threats to New Zealand.

First there was the Wikileaks reports on New Zealand which range from closer intelligence ties where the US could assist in monitoring radicalizing Kiwi Jihadists to the claim that there were no terrorists or support groups in New Zealand.

Funny I found one person who had been a radicalizing Kiwi Jihadist on youtube, another that could be. That is without taking into account the person who turned to Islam in prison & called it, in an interview, the religion of the black man for the war against the white man if I remember his tirade correctly some years ago.

The problem is as outlined in his youtube clips by the former Kiwi Jihadist, both New Zealand & US intelligence ignore those small things that you really need to be aware of & not just look for the smoking gun or rely on electronic intelligence.

So how any good comment could be made based on what they hear or see in Wellington or based on electronic intelligence is limited.

As recent events in the US itself has shown a lot of the radicals have been home grown young idealists. They are the ones they know about.
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Then there was the incident on the inter Island ferry where a Jewish prayer ritual not regularly seen in New Zealand was been practised & caused a call out of the Anti terrorist police unit.

The Race Relations commissioner says it hints at an "exaggerated fear of terrorisn." I would beg to differ & say New Zealand tends not to think it will ever been a target even though it has been in the past & is daily from organized crime.

I would go further & say the ships crew have done very well. Something happening which they were not familiar with so they reported it & kept it under observation only so as not to panic passengers.

The Police then reacted & carried out their drills as they should. If you think there is a possible terrorist you do not ask them "excuse me are you a terrorist?", but treat the person as a terrorist until you know better.

The Race Relations Commissioner is showing the kind of woolly thinking that gets people killed!
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Then the media had to get involved & the person I saw been interviewed on 'Close up' was not what he was said to be. Just because you have a degree in terrorism it doesn't make you a Counter Terrorism Expert.

The only person I would say is near to fitting that title would be a member/former member of the SAS anti terrorist team.

Or a former terrorist!
Home Grown Terrorism (The Undeclared War Against Crime in America)
Then you throw into the mix the terrorist attack in Sweden. All the focus of likely terrorist attacks in Europe had been on the major players not the 'safe' countries like Sweden.

It is exactly the same reason why New Zealand is a perfect target. It is seen as safe & therefore a successful attack would have major psychological effect on people.

Even though only one person was involved in the Swedish attack, with a seperate car bomb then suicide bomb or pipe bombs in his back pack you could see the intention followed the terrorist line of follow up attacks or even bombs placed to hit those responding. Things just didn't go the way as planned.
60 Minutes - Homegrown Terror (May 9, 2010)
The reaction in this case was good in particular by the ships crew & that is the sort of thing that all New Zealand entities should be prepared for but generally aren't because they think it just won't happen here.

As the advert goes "Yeah Right".

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If there are Riots over fees what will they do when this hits?

Kia Ora,

Before we get into todays topic thanks to Simon for his comment.

Yes there could be repercussions as gang seeks out weak links. But in the main any rise in crime & violent crime actually comes from people cut off from their supplies. They often move to more violent crime to get the currency as cost of their favourite drug goes up due to decrease in supply & they need more currency fast.

Yet again mayhem rules on the streets of London but it is only over the rasing of school fees.

Well what is going to happen when people find out their retirement fund or superannuation has all been taken?

Many will not believe that but just do a search for the 60 minutes clip on the 401K for New Zealanders one of the US equals to our Kiwisaver super scheme. Its an eye opener.

In a forum recently some Australians were talking about how the same is happening with their scheme which was supposed to be the best in the world. Now I have word that Australia has moved to allow people to control their own, but as some US commentators have said of their 401K it is letting people who know nothing about investing into investing, so basically another way to steal their currency. People need to educate themselves & take control of their own lives.

With the right knowledge they can do well in the markets whilst all others are loosing out.
The French Revolution
So if as one commentator has said in recent days that 95% of the world(definitely western world) will be bankrupt within the next three years, the value of their most prize possessions plummet(search for Mike Maloney Dead cat bounce on youtube), their savings for retirement are gone & their education counts for nothing as a new slavery system is set up to replace the education system.

What are the riots going to be like?

Or is it going to be a revolution or two?

If Wikileaks gets the chance will it be its release of the details from a large bank that will trigger it to accelerate once people know the truth?

Would the information that comes out be something like you get on this clip Crash JP Morgue , look it up on the internet.

Crime is about to rise again based on the information on those three clips alone if people haven't prepared themselves.

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Is That list really a Security Threat?

Kia Ora,

The big news world wide is of course the list Wikileaks has released on supposed industries & assets the US wants most to protect.

But what does the list really tell us?

First that in some cases all the eggs are in one basket so need to have a careful eye kept on them.

So there needs to be a decision as to whether the eggs need to be split up or just left as they are with maybe enhanced security & are they really that important?
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Secondly that maybe the US still hasn't fully come to grips with the fact that though those maybe important targets especially in a conventional war situation the targets might be a lot different in a terrorist campaign.

It is a lesson from Vietnam that seemed to have been overlooked when you touched down in Iraq. Insurgents & terrorists might be more worried about getting good media coverage & into the hearts & minds of the people back home.

Vietnam's turning point is said to be the occupation during the Tet offensive of the US embassy in Saigon & its affect on the American mindset back home.

That is not to say many in the American services were not trying but in a big organization from a country that likes to stick rigidly to procedures to think outside the square gets you in trouble. But in this type of warfare it is those on the ground, soldiers & NCO's that make the difference especially in the important hearts & minds of locals. Not throwing currency at the issue.
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Now the US might of at least learned part of that lesson as it was rumoured during our time in Baghdad that a certain radio message one day inside the Green Zone was due to five insurgents managing to get inside the Chancery of the US embassy.

It is almost likely behind the suppression of generally known information(like a suicide bombing because you generally knew about them alright)to keep the public on the forces side. Today we have the internet so a lot was known to be or seen to be going on was in the public domain, hence a loss of support anyway. Wikileaks has only confirmed what was already believed to be or known to be going on.

Thirdly that terrorists & insrugents do exactly like we do & carry out reconnaissance to see what targets & their weaknesses are available. I wouldn't be surprised if all the places mentioned are not already on lists of terrorist cells.

Now they regularly did this in Iraq & we were picking them up doing their recon's & reporting it to the US military who promptly ignored us since we were private security. Almost everytime a suicide bomb was detonated within a day or on the day of reporting.

Three guys in a car with binoculars or another vehicle with a video camera all trained on one point at different times is usually a good give away.
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
You only have to look at main target on 9/11 to see how effective an attack can be on the mindset of people.

Look at it from a terrorist point of view. The actual important targets might be too hard to get at so what can they hit on the side that will still have an effect?
Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
Now I go back to the Rugby World Cup here in New Zealand as perfect target.

Slack security & likely to be not much better next year as no one thinks it will ever happen here(the belief there is no threat is the biggest threat).

Three prime targets.

Party Central Auckland but been main venue likely to have highest secruity presence.

Game the US team is to play for some reason on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. What idiot allowed that to happen needs to be sacked. So high priority target right there. Gets world wide coverage.
The Counter-Insurgency Manual
The third has always been my pick until that game was scheduled for the anniversary.

Christchurch Rugby road, bars & any large gathering such as in Cathederal Square.

Why?

We have an American base nearby. Don't hit the base but in the city it is in. There are going to be a lot of tourists in town & a co-ordinated attack on several points at once(as they have done in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bali, London & New Delhi)will be world wide news in less than 10 minutes & will be felt across the world.

Hitting a so called peaceful country(most peaceful in the world apparently) will have a greater effect than trying to take on identified important targets.
Counterinsurgency
To really counter terrorists you have to think like one.

So is the list helpful to terrorists. I don't think so as they will have either identified them for what ever reason or have ones they think are important of their own.

So what is really been hidden or are governments trying to stop?

Probably the release of the information on one of the large American banks which could be the trigger which causes the collapse of the worlds financial system.

Or as Warren Buffett says, as it will take down the derivatives market, the real "Weapons of Mass Destruction"! This will lead to the the break down of society!

It is going to happen anyway based on the history of finance, but will just likely happen quicker depending on what is released.

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The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction!

Kia Ora,

As we all know the US & its coalition of the willing invaded Iraq on the pretext to find the weapons of mass destruction in 2003, but never found any. They knew Iraq had had them as the US allegedly sold the weapons to the Iraqis(be interesting to see what Wikileaks comes up with on this).

Many believed the real reason for the invasion was to gain the oil (in 2004 an official connected to the oil talks with Iraq told me that there was at that point in time an estimated US$37 Trillion worth of oil untouched in Iraq).

Another reason has since surfaced in the supposed asking by Saddaam at the time of all payments for Iraqi oil be made in Euros which at the time would of allegedly collapsed the US financial system.

But there are bigger weapons of mass destruction out there & all put in place by the US.

That is the name Warren Buffett gave to the derivatives market. Derivatives trading can be quite fun & have dabbled in it with options trading. But most of the derivatives are not traded on the markets & that is where the issues arise.

An estimated 90% of the market in derivatives is done behind closed doors in particular with those like CDO's in which mortgages are on sold.

Don't know what CDO's are or how it works? Basically when a bank or finance company gives you a mortgage you create the currency as it did not exist before you signed the mortgage. So you have just expanded the currency in the world. But the bank or company does it even better, it packages that mortgage with others, some good & some bad & on sells them to another bank or financial group.
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Second Edition
The entity that gave you the mortgage then collects the interest & payments for the mortgage charges fees on it & the rest goes to the group that bought the CDO.

The problems start when the mortgagees can no longer pay the interest or principle on property. The property then goes into a mortgagee sale or foreclosure in the US. Further problems then come to light as has happened in the US when a legal challenge found the bank who first issued the mortgage then tries to foreclose cannot as they no longer own the mortgage.

This is definitely an issue when the mortgage is a sub prime mortgage as those takng it out where never likely to be able to pay. The next round of a high number of subprime loans are about to hit early in 2011. In fact a lot more than in 2008 & getting bigger as the year moves towards June.
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So what has all this got to do with weapons of mass destruction?

The financial crisis of 2008 was mainly due to the derivatives market dropping from an estimated US$ 750 Trillion to US$600 Trillion. Whilst the rest of the worlds economy has stumbled from one crisis to another this market has bounced back on course to allgedly have reached its expected 2010 level of a quadrillion with comments it may have doubled during the year to 2 quadrillion which keeps it on target to reach a quintillion by 2020(this is a market that started in 1990 at US$10 Trillion). This market was only allowed to trade on the markets until December 2000 when it was allowed to carryout the 'over the counter' or behind closed door deals.

So What?
All About Derivatives Second Edition (All About Series)
It is through these markets certain items such as oil are manipulated up & others such as silver are manipulated down.

Even a small percentage of collapse involves huge sums of currency. The ways to overcome the fallout of any hiccup in this market generally one way or the other bring about as one commentator stated 'social destablization'.

What?

In other words crime goes up & to areas not normally targeted as happened in New Zealand over the weekend when a pet shop was held up. Somewhere you would not expect to have a lot of currency on hand on a Saturday morning.
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You also get protests or riots over school fees, rise in pensions, other austerity measures & more union unrest. Sound familiar?

So if a much bigger amount of sub prime loans are about to come due with the attached CDO's & it hits the derivatives market what then?

More businesses out of business. Greater unemployment therefore greater stress on food & shelter for families resulting in greater unrest & crime. As you delve more into this topic you start to realize why survivalist groups have sprung up in the US once people realized what was going on.

The world has become so reliant on the debt based economy that any slight tremor(like a Sovereign debt crisi in Europe spreading next to the UK then US) could send the house of cards falling down.

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Is Secrecy necessary?

Kia Ora,

Well Wikileaks has put the cat amongst the pigeons with great effort been put into trying to shut down the site & many questions been asked about the charges alleged against the founder.

Is Secrecy necessary? It is a question many are asking in the wake of the releases.

Overall there has not a lot of real secrets been released this time around. Opinons that are not that much different than people who follow what is going on in places like Pakistan.

Of course they have to be careful that nothing puts people's lives in danger, but overall so far there really hasn't been a lot that people didn't already think was happening. These releases just confirmed the truth.

Some have been on civilians actually killed in Iraq. Though for many in America that might of seemed until now like propaganda against the US, the standing comment by Iraqis when there was when a comment was made about the population was "26 million but now 25 million because the Americans kill so many."
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But is secrecy necessary?

To a certain extent yes.

There are things that are carried out in the name of countries to allow the citizens to carry on their lives as they wish but would not like to know about.

Then there are those situations where to reveal information would put lives at risk. Or the legal risk of those opinons becoming known.

Another reason might be future intentions where it would give an unfair advantage.
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Overall a little more of what governments alwasy claim they provide but don't, transparency & freedom of speech would be good. When you look into what has happened in the US alone in the way the people have been hoodwinked it is no wonder it is the land of the conspiracy theory because it is actually true. From the turning of the education system into the modern slavery system starting in about 1903 to the secret meetings to set up the private bank now known as the Federal reserve starting in 1904 it never seems to end.

Is some secreacy necessary? Yes, but governments & bureaucrats been more open & honest might just make this world a better place.

It might just remove some of the frustration people feel because they know that things are not as they are told & don't feel the need to lash out.

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Is Wikileaks the Trigger?

Kia Ora,

In a recent post I wrote about the expected collapse of the worlds financial system & what could trigger it.

Well it is very likely that Wikileaks will provide that trigger as long as they are not shut down in the meantime.

Wikileaks could of averted the one course nations take to avert financial crisis or prolong financial crisis from happening, though in the long run make things worse.

That is going to war!

Although North Korea could be regarded as a loose cannon, that released cables point to the fact that China thinks it might be good to have a unified Korea, could make North Korea realize they need to tread carefully.

Iran too could see things in a different light & the US will have to deal with the fact on both fronts it is now known the Russians think things are not as bad as the US makes out so favour different options.
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So why would Wikileaks be the trigger for the collapse of the worlds financial system.

Its next release(if still in operation) is to be documents concerning one of the big banks in the US(suspected to be the Bank of America as they have said before they have material on that bank) & the corruption involved.

Why would that affect the world?

It is not new news to some, but by coming through Wikileaks it will suddenly be seen by the majority who have been manipulated up until now.
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It could expose for example the belief some commentators have that oil would still be around $US11 if it wasn't for the large banks manipulating through the use of derivatives the price of oil. Or the fact that again through the use of derivatives the price of silver has been manipulated right down.

Silver been of particular interest at present as one commentator(Max Keiser) is promoting the idea of US citizens to buy 100 million ounces of silver to bankrupt JP Morgan. Yet another source though is saying there is only 8 days worth of silver above ground at the present time. So if miners went on strike where silver is produced or everyone tried to buy at once the world would be in serious trouble as silver is essential to all modern electronics. Amongst other uses.
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Any of those issues coupled with the fact the Sovereign debt criss refuses to go away & is unlikely too. Add in the fact that early next year the US sub prime loans become due again but to a greater amount than in 2008.

What will be the results?

Well people are going to find it more expensive to buy food, unemployment is increasing most places & will continue to do so. Despite the fact US figures are expected to show less unemployment this week which hides the fact 2 million people will be cut from the figures as they have been on unemployment for 99 weeks. They will still be unemployed, just outside the system with another 2 million to be taken off the numbers later this month. Another manipulation.

Crime will increase & many countries where they have thought they have missed the worst of the Depression(not recession) such as Australia & New Zealand will get hit hard. Even here in Christchurch where post the earthquake the rebuilding was expected to assist in the economic recovery.

But though all this will also happen without Wikileaks, it is likely to happen sooner & faster with Wikileaks releasing that information, but the effects will not be as bad as it would if we continue on the present path.
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What does that all mean?

Well we have seen with austerity measures increased civil disorder & there will be a corresponding increase in crime.

If hyperinflation kicks in with increasing prices in particular of food we will likely see food riots & again a rise in crime.

This is why you see China ignoring the US. China's biggest fear are its own people, not the US & so it is trying to manage its economy to ensure its people have jobs, cash & food. It is appearing to look to raise the Yuan at its own pace because if they do it quickly it will have two effects. One put many of businesses out of business & two destroy the US economy completely. By taking its time it hopes to change the businesses to allow the Chinese people to buy the goods they produce.
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Allgedly the Chinese have stockpiled a lot of commodities to keep their industries moving as the world collapses around it. China has also been investing a lot in commodities in emerging economies in Africa & South America. Lastly like many Asia governments it has apparently being encouraging the people to purchase gold & silver.

China & Russia are now bypassing using the US dollar in trading between the two as they obviously see the US currency as toast.

But as said in a previous post it means the it is time of opportunity as long as you educate yourself & prepare.

It also means that security will be a growth industry.

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Information & what to do with it?

Kia Ora,

The Wikileaks expose on information from the US military has caused some red faces, but really had some of that information been used better when it presented the view of the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan might be slightly different.

Whether the information would of made those views more favourable now, no one knows.

As I see it there are different ways you can use the information.

What I see as the US way. Deny anything happened. For many incidents in Iraq it was often denied as a US soldier never saw it & even if they did, the incident just didn't happen despite 100's & sometimes 1000's witnessing something.

In someways similar to what you get when calling NZ police communications about suspicious activity. Often those calls are based on knowing your area or experience, but nothing is done until you have satisfied their piece of paper. Known as other end itis in where one has little idea what the other is seeing or reporting.

This backfires when the opposition (in particular Al Qaeda) video it taking place & the internet allows easy posting of incidents or as has happened on Wikileaks & someone leaked to them a large amount of embarrassing information.

Some would say another way is that where you give out some of the information but twist it to your favour & that has also been used in Iraq & Afghanistan, but again it can backfire.

It is an approach the police use,but for different reasons as they need to keep some of it quiet for legal reasons.

Then you can be completely truthful. Unfortunately in a war that can get people killed & with policing it can affect your case in court.

It is more what you do with the information at the time received, but as the recently released report on US Intelligence quoted people saying. There was just too much information for them.


This means at lower levels information needs to be processed & acted on. In theory with computers etc it should be easier for all information to be feed in & updated assessments made.

But a computer doesn't have the instinct a human has based usually on experience. The Police often solve crimes based on a hunch. Security Guards do the same when dealing with crime & the military do the same on patrol & it is all based on experience & information gained on the ground.

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Fear rules the Security Industry!

Kia Ora,

Normally I don't like to publish anonymous comments especially if they are taking a swipe at you with out the facts to back them up, but the other day i received a comment in support of what I am saying on these blogs.

Why I published them was to show I am not the only one saying this within the industry.

Also the fact that someone in the NZ Security Industry will not put their name to supporting what I say, is many want to carryout real security, but are prevented by the companies. If their name was published they would be out of a job & more often than not on already low wages they have a family to support.

Although my company has not been succesful to this stage, what I do have is the freedom to comment on the industry as I & others see it.

There is no regard for staff health & safety for most, no regard to actual security. More often than not the NZ Security Industry has no idea what security is.

They bank on the fear of people wanting to keep their jobs for information not to leak out & the fact that in NZ a security guard is regarded at the very bottom of the food chain, despite many being extremely bright & commtitted to the profession.
Although that is mainly what I have seen in Christchurch, the observations made when travelling or talking to people from other areas show there is no difference in the rest of New Zealand.

That there is the same people showing up in control of the industry shows that there will be no change until something happens like a few deaths.

The Stampede in Germany, although NZ is not likely to have those numbers yet in one place, asks the question how would NZ security or crowd control handle a similar situation. From experience I would say not well at all.

Wikileaks has let the cat out of the bag on the US operations in Afghanistan & I am well aware of similar things happening in Iraq whilst working there, but it is no different to the NZ Security Industry on a much smaller scale. The secrets it knows not only of its clients but within the industry itself would shock most people.

The Industry counts again on that fear keeping people from commenting openly in a way that will bring change.

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